Inclusive Collaboration Experiments (Aino Corry, Lounge 9.15)

This session was inspired by, and based on the book; Inclusive Collaboration Experiments by Dr. Sal Freudenberg and Katherine Kirk.

The session had the following agenda:

We talked about the theory behind inclusiveness when it comes to neurodiversity, and then we tried an experiment. This experiment was drawing between lines, but with the handicap that you had to look through a mirror, you could not look directly at the lines on the paper. This turned out to be very hard, especially with left-right confusion. The point was to get empathy with people who see things in a different way than yourself:

Then it was time for another experiment, now the handicap was being tickled by a feather (we used the feather at the end of the talking stick). The point was to see how it felt to do something even relatively easy while being bothered in a sensory way. The “victim” (which is this case was Aino) should copy a simple sentence while being tickled in the face. This proved to be very difficult indeed. The point was to get empathy with people who easily get sensory overload.